An investigation by the MHRA has today led to the sentencing of a man to four and a half years’ imprisonment at Kingston Crown Court. He was convicted of four offences under the Medicines Act and Trade Marks Act. Three other men have also been found guilty, one of whom was also convicted of money laundering offences. The offences concerned the conspiracy to smuggle and supply counterfeit medicines into and, in some cases, out of the UK
The men were charged with masterminding the industrial-scale supply of counterfeit medicine between 2002 and 2005, involving millions of pounds worth of counterfeit Viagra, Cialis and Propecia. These seizures resulted in the MHRA unravelling the biggest conspiracy of the supply of counterfeit medicines thus far in the UK. The seizure of over £1,500,000 of counterfeit medicines was intended to be supplied to customers through this conspiracy.
Good, the damage theses drug could do to your health is unknown..